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Importing a a surface from Google Earth
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Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:55 pmby LThomas
Has anyone tried doing this, and if so how do you go about it?
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Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:05 pmby R Stillwell
Yes but my results haven't always been stellar. Last time I tried it the elevation assigned to the surface were about 1000 feet different than the elevation shown when hovering over the same location on Google Earth.
Also since it is pulling the elevations from a grid. If you are sampling an area around creeks it will not represent them very well.
The help file for the command thoroughly explains how to go through the process.
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Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:59 pmby LThomas
Thanks for the reply. I hadn't been able to find the help topic before, but I found it now. Any chance that grade issue you had was due to metric vs english units?
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Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:50 pmby jbaldeo
sorry, but what is the name of the help topic for this process
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:56 amby gskelhorn
jbaldeo wrote:sorry, but what is the name of the help topic for this process
Look in Civil Module | Surface Menu | Import Google Earth Surface or use the Search tab in the help to find Google Earth.
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:05 pmby jbaldeo
Thank You, I got it